Lost model alert! Reward if found!

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Lost RF link, model flew away. If you're in the area, and find a lost semi autonomous model (drone), there's a reward! Oh, it'd be great if you could pull the battery connector to save the battery Uhmm... AMA / FAA / Contact details might not be printed on a label, but contact details in link below:

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We're all laughing a little 'cause it's an Army Tactical Unmanned Aircraft system costing about $15.1 million dollars each (or $1.5 million each depending on news source). Not really a model, but the news article reads a lot like something we would post for a lost quad.

You'd think they would put a lost model alarm or something in it when your budget gets over a couple million. I mean, I usually do that when I get over $100 into a model

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Yah, if you read the Ft Huachuca fb post I linked to above you'll find these great quotes:

At 5:16 p.m. Jan. 31, a Shadow RQ-7Bv2 unmanned aircraft system launched from Hubbard Landing Zone on the Fort&#8217;s East Range and lost connectivity with the ground station. Despite considerable efforts to locate the missing Shadow, it has not been found and is thought to have disintegrated upon impact somewhere in the local area.

If anyone has information related to the missing Shadow UAS, please call the Fort Huachuca Installation Operations Center 520.533.2291 or the Military Police Desk at 520.533.3000.

The Shadow encorporates a Retun Home Logic within its autopilot. If this was a true dual uplink loss and the Air Vehicle is not at the loaded return home point then it was either loaded improperly or there was a significant mechanical or flight control failure.

You'd think they'd put a beacon on these things to track...

Except a beacon can be seen by intended targets, these things aren't delivering Christmas presents....

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If it was a cloudy day then you wouldnt see the shadow. Too soon?
U.S. Army Fort Huachuca: We see what you did there, but too soon.

Someone has an issue with the technical discussions:
Jeez-o Pete, people! Have none of you ever taken an OPSEC class?!?

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Good news! It was found stuck in a tree... in Colorado. Those pesky trees jump out of no where even with military drones. Now...about that matter of whoever programmed their home post (joint base Lewis-McChord in Washington state) as the return to home location... always check your C.R.A.P including programming, just like the Joshes say.

Speculation is that they let it fly too far downwind and it couldn't get back! Hahah...

The diminutive drone may have been a victim of the jet stream. Weather data for Jan. 31 shows strong, warm winds blowing into Colorado from the desert southwest. The powerful jet stream wind can grab high-flying drones and turn them into long-distance gliders.

And it's not Colorado's first experience with a misguided drone flying far beyond its stated range.

In 2015, Fort Carson controllers lost track of a 4-pound RQ-11 Raven drone and it wandered 12 miles, all the way to a yard on Alexander Road between Uintah and San Miguel streets in Colorado Springs. That's nearly double the Raven's stated range of 6.2 miles.